Abdelkader Dahou, Antonin Bastian, Arben Bajraktaraj

A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, h...( read more  read more... )e must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine. He embarks upon this journey guided by the roots of a plant, leading the way and the main subject of attention of the REZO.

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R, 98 min.

Directed by: Franck Vestiel

Release Date: December 26, 2007

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DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009

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  • June 21, 2009
    With a bigger budget and a more coherent plot this could've been a five star film but as it stands its still a well done bleak sci-fi thriller from France.
  • March 19, 2009
    Like other French Sci-Fi movies such as Dante 01 and Chrysalis this is all about the atmosphere. Dark, brooding, impressive designs. It's like a concept artists sketchbook just exploded on screen. Unfortunately this results in a story that is lacking in terms of originality. It f...( read more)ails to really absorb, apart from the beginning where confusion acts as entertainment. The pacing is also nothing to be envied. A guy just walks around for the first 30 minutes, before some plot and action seeps through. It was certainly an interesting visual watch, but by the end I didn't seem to care about the outcome. Give these visuals to a master storyteller and then we're on to a winner. Which is why Giger's Alien creation still haunts ones nightmares, after Scott knew how to handle the parts.
  • November 3, 2008
    first screening: half awake, but still loved it
  • June 27, 2009
    Silly French sci-fi gubbins about a man who wakes up in the dark and spends the next 90 minutes crawling around in the dark trying to find out what's going on only to be eaten by a giant tree at the end. I get the religious metaphors, but there's so much pretentiousness in this f...( read more)ilm, and the director is clearly trying to be the next Gilliam/Caro. I mean, the main character has this torch thing on his shoulder, but the light shines on his face - completely fucking pointless, much like this film.
  • May 20, 2009
    This movie is an intense experience. You literally feel like you are in a maze with the main character, the cinematography, very dim lighting and coloring, clostrophobic feel, and lack of dialog really make this film look and feel great. But alltogether it is not a great movie, i...( read more)t lacks a good story. If it had a better and more well thought-out story my rating would be even higher. This movie will not appeal to everyone, but if you are in the mood for something different give this a try. Watch the film in it's original French, not English.
  • November 29, 2009

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    Eden Log

    Eden Log (French, 2007, English language)
    WRITTEN BY: Pierre Bordage and Franck Vestiel
    DIRECTED BY: Franck Vestiel
    WITH: Clovis Comillca, Vimala Pons and Zohar Wexleser
    GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY
    TAGS: WEIRD

    PLOT: A man named Tolbiac (Cornillac) awakens with amnesia alongside rotting corpses in a high tech underground wasteland. He must find his way out of a massive labyrinth that is very deep within the earth. In order to do so he has to collect and assimilate data and unravel clues to the bizarre circumstances in which he finds himself.

    Shot entirely indoors in an underground setting, this unusual science fiction film blurs the line between supposed reality and apparent fantasy. Told visually, with minimal dialogue, the viewer is disoriented by the bizarre circumstances and setting. One must see through the protagonist's eyes to decipher his otherworldly experience. The challenge is heightened by the fact that he has no memory and his world seems just as alien to him as it does to us.

    COMMENTS: Eden Log is told mainly with pictures. It is set in the near future. There is refreshingly little exposition. There are no long and grandiose on-screen paragraphs or narration at the inception telling about a land far, far away in a time long ago. As a result, the story is a bit murky.

    The viewer must piece the action together from the protagonist's experiences, which unfold from his point of view. The meaning of some events is not clearly delineated, and the beholder must learn how to interpret them. Due to the fact that one must suspend disbelief in order to accept certain aspects of the plot, one is never sure until the end how to understand some of Tolbiac's impressions and experiences. It is at first hard to tell what is real and what is fantasy.

    Tolbiac starts out at the bottom of a ruined, high-tech subterranean maze in pool of muddy water among dead bodies. He must quickly assimilate himself to his dark, cold, wet environment by scavenging clothing and equipment from a plethora of cadavers. As he does so he gradually begins to make his ascent through the hellish terrain. He encounters some frightening characters and a sequence of bizarre threats as he unravels his way through this post apocalyptic tangle.

    Along the route he collects and tries to translate odd clues. Gaining insight into his plight is his best chance for planning each succeeding step. Tolbiac must dodge savage humanoids and Orwellian storm troopers who may be hunting him, while he tries to decipher mysterious technological data.

    Tobiac encounters cryptic evidence that a totalitarian elite society controls the depths and the workers who once inhabited them. Promising sanctuary in return for "sacrifice," there seems to have been a program in place to reward the troglodytes with acceptance into a Utopian society on the surface. He finds a departure depot from which the workers would leave, ascending in illuminated cubes. Strange speaking holograms of people guide him and advise him, but they are sinister and their presentation is suspicious.

    Tolbiac soon digs up other holographic date elsewhere which indicates the the workers who ascended in the cubes were never heard from again. What became of them? Will he share their fate or find a way to navigate the strange and terrible gauntlet obstructing him from deliverance? And what of the gargantuan and possibly carnivorous root structure that ubiquitously pervades every level of the complex?

    Tolbiac's only hope seems to be gaining the acceptance of a sole surviving technician who once worked in the maze, and who is now clinging to survival herself. After she captures Tolbiac, she uses him as a diversion to save herself and abandons him. He must find her and win her trust. But how?










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  • November 28, 2009
    Recommended by WitchfulThinking.
  • November 19, 2009
    OMG! Brilliant! It starts off with very quick edits from a black, blank screen to what might be a monster emerging out of the mud. As the opening titles roll on towards their end, the emerging shots get longer and the blank screens get shorter. It's our hero, and we sit through t...( read more)he whole movie to discover what happened, and because it really must be experinced, I will not divulge into the plot, but the director keeps tension, energy, and pacing amped at all times. All the actors/ actresses fit their roles perfectly and the movie has a great sterilized light blue look accentuated by the long lens. I was very impressed, and the ending (unlike some other recent watches of mine) is perfectly suited to the rest of the story and feels fresh and original.
  • October 23, 2009
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  • September 26, 2009
    Interesting for a new sci-fi: claustrophobic, kind of a comb of THE CUBE & LOGANS RUN. But I still dont see how 1 tree can POWER a whole city.

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  • mmcdonnell3
    October 20, 2008
    the review above didn't post a site link, so just in case anyone was wondering you can check out this movie and the rest of the six shooter series at sixshooterfilmseries.com

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